Did you ever think what someone would make of your youtube viewing history and browsing history if they ever got hold of that information? I am not talking about cookies and sophisticated algorithms that place an ad for the vacuum cleaner you looked up on Amazon on every site you visit. They do a pretty good job of profiling you.

I am talking about what a real person would make of it when he goes through your internet activities. It’s worse than having someone go through your diary. If someone were to profile me purely on my internet activity with no prior knowledge about me, here is how I think it will go:

Watches a ton of nail art videos
Nail artist, Has pretty nails – The last manicure was about a year back before a marriage. Has the shortest convent-cut, trimmed to the max nails. Is simply mesmerized by the nail art videos.

Likes every funny baby video out there
Mommy – Yes

Watches tamil cinema songs, Shinchan, Home Décor DIYs, Craft DIYs, Cleaning DIYs, Shaun the Sheep, Ted talks, tamil comedy youtube channels
Is a local tamil person with tamil sensibilities – Yes
Is a child at heart – Has unruly kids at home
Is an enthusiastic DIYer. Does everything on her own – Mannangatti! Translates to No. Likes DIYers and secretly wishes husband can be that all-in-all DIYer.

Has thoroughly researched cleaning products, brooms, mops & brushes
Part of the housekeeping team – Not really, kind of… at home

Uses Google maps regularly for a lot of the same places near and far
Maybe a part-time ola/uber driver – Is Dory’s real life character, cannot remember directions

Overall, you see it is a fun exercise and not totally off the mark. Try imagining what your online profile will look like to others. If you do try this exercise, share your comments. I’d love to hear.

I also realized that my blog is being perceived as a mostly non-vegetarian blog. Funny, how that came about. I would have thought I blog more vegetarian recipes than non-vegetarian recipes in general. I am surprised.I don’t want to deliberately share a vegetarian recipe now in order to prove my point. So I’ll go ahead and share the prawn masala recipe that was part of my original plan for today. Now just because I’ve shared a non-vegetarian recipe, I hope people don’t think that way.

The recipe to this prawn masala is super simple and dumb-easy. You cannot possibly go wrong with this recipe. This prawn masala employs the very basic building block of everyday tamil cooking – the onion-tomato thokku (masala). Just cook up this masala and toss prawns into it and wait for the magic to happen. This prawn masala is great with ghee rice or with rice & kuzhambu, sambar or even rasam. Enjoy!

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I am Jayanthi. I love to cook. I am the one who lingers on at a function to have a word with the caterer to ask him for the vathal kuzhambu recipe. I amass recipes and I covet my knives.
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